Combination hinge and rack.



tllSlITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KRUDEL, or BUTTE, Montana.

COJEIIBINATION HINGE AND BACK.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN linoonn, a citiis toprovide a device of the character statedor simple construction andoperation.

A further object is to provide a device which can be quickly and easilyapplied to a door hinge of standard construction.

Further objects will appear from the detailed description.

ln the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of theinvention 2 is a similar view ofanother form of the invention, and Fig.form.

The hinge is of usual construction being composed of two leaveshavingthe intermeshing integral sleeves 1 and 2 pivotally connected by a hingepin 2). ln applying the invention the pin 3 is extended, in the formillustrated in Fig. 2, and a .llbracket 1 provided with integral collars5 is pivoted on the upper part of this pin. This bracket carries a towelrack (l secured therein. spacing sleeve 7 is mounted about the pin belowthe bottom collar 5 of the towel rack,

and rests on a collar 8 integral with a hook 9 and secured to the pin.The hook 9 is provided with an integral supplemental hook 10, thevertical arm 10 of which carries an integral lug 11 the inner face ofwhich is provided with an arcuate recess which snugly about. the sleeve2 or" the hinge leaf 12 and thus acts to ellectively brace thesupplemental hook 10 and tne hook 9. This device may be easily andquickly applied to a hinge of ordinary construction by simplywithdrawing the usual hinge pin and inserting instead the elongated pin'3 carrying the rack and hook shown in i the device shown 3 3 edrawhoolr 9 is mounted shove the "he hinge pin and provided with asimilar head 18 carried by the arm '4. 3 illustrates still another ,peri Specification of Letters Eatent. Patented Dec, 19, 1916,

Application filed July 13, 1916.

Serial No. 109,120.

supplemental hook 10 having a lug 11 fitting about the hinge sleeve '2form of my invention, the towel rack 6 and sleeves 5 and 7 are omitted.in all other respects the form shown in Fig. 3 corresponds to that shownin Fig. 2.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings I have omitted the hook entirely and inserteda towel rack provided with a plurality of arms. @n the upper end of thehinge pin 1 mount a collar 7 carrying an arm 7 threaded through theupper end of a strap 9". The uper end of the strap 9" is provided withan integral sleeve 9 mounted about the hinge pin above the hinge proper.At its lower end the strap 9 is provided with an integral lug 9 which issecured by a screw 18 to a ring 1% mounted about the hinge pin betweenthe sleeves 15 and 15 of the hinge leai 16. The strap In this 1 9 isfurther provided with an integral downwardly projecting arrn carrying arecessed head 1'? in vertical alinement with a A pin is carried by theheads 1'? and 18 and a plurality of sleeves 19 are loosely mounted onthis pin, each sleeve carrying a rod 20, the whole constituting amultiple arm towel rack.

By invention 1 have produced a rack which can be readily and easilyapplied to the hinge of a door and which is especially adapted for usein lavatories and other public places, although it is equally welladapted for use in private houses.

will be evident that certain changes can be made in the details of theconstruction and arrangement of my invention without departing from thefield and scope of the same and I intend to include all such variationsas fall within the appended claims in this application in which apreferred form only of the invention is disclosed.

ll hat 1 claim is:

1. ln device of the character described. the combination a hinge. anelongated pin carried thereby, and a hook mounted on said pin andprovided with a bracing member engaging the hinge.

2,. ln device of the character described. the combination of a hinge. apin carried the loody of hereby and projecting beyond s id pin andprovided with an adapted to bear against the bociy of the In testimonywhereof I affix my signature hinge for bracing purposes. in presence oftwo Witnesses.-

3. In a device of the character tiescribedt,

v the combination of a hinge, at. pin carried 7 JOHN KRQDEL. 5 therebyand projecting beyond the booty of Witnesses:

said hinge, a hook mounted. on said; pin, 'zinoi DONALD Momma,

a rack mounted on the pin above saici hook. LEO BUTLER.

